TeamCity

TeamCity is a Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) server offered by JetBrains.

Glossary

Installation

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

1. Install OpenJDK 8.

   apt-get update
   apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk

2. Install PostgreSQL.

   apt-get install postgresql postgresql-contrib

3. Login to the postgres account and login to the PostgreSQL database.

   su postgres
   psql

4. Create the teamcity user and associated database. Exit psql and the postgres user when finished.

   CREATE USER teamcity WITH PASSWORD '-PASSWORDHERE-';
   CREATE DATABASE teamcity OWNER teamcity;
   \q
   exit

5. Download the tar.gz installer from the JetBrains Website. Be sure to replace the wget URL with the latest direct download link.

   wget https://download.jetbrains.com/teamcity/TeamCity-2019.1.3.tar.gz

6. Extract the tar.gz into the /opt directory.

   tar -xvzf TeamCity-2019.1.3.tar.gz -C /opt

7. Create the teamcity user and home directory.

   useradd teamcity
   mkdir /home/teamcity

8. Disable logging in for the teamcity user.

   usermod --shell /usr/sbin/nologin teamcity

9. Change ownership of the TeamCity directory to the teamcity user.

   chown -R teamcity:teamcity /opt/TeamCity

10. Enter the following config into /etc/systemd/system/teamcity-server.service:

    [Unit]
    Description=JetBrains TeamCity Server
    Requires=network.target
    After=syslog.target network.target
    
    [Service]
    Type=simple
    ExecStart=/opt/TeamCity/bin/teamcity-server.sh run
    ExecStop=/opt/TeamCity/bin/teamcity-server.sh stop
    User=teamcity
    
    [Install]
    WantedBy=multi-user.target

11. Enable the TeamCity Server service.

    systemctl enable teamcity-server

12. Start the TeamCity Server service.

    systemctl start teamcity-server

13. Navigate to port 8111 on the server in a web browser. When prompted, select PostgreSQL as the database type and enter the previously created PostgreSQL user information.